Jens Schröter 
From Jesus to the New Testament [PDF ebook] 
Early Christian Theology and the Origin of the New Testament Canon

Editors’ Introduction

Preface to the English Edition

Preface to the German Edition

Introduction

Part I: Recollection and History in Early Christianity

1 New Testament Science beyond Historicism

2 Reflections on the Relationship between Historiography and Hermeneutics in New Testament Science

3 Construction of History and the Beginnings of Christianity

4 History in Light of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Part II: Jesus–Paul–Luke

5 Beginnings of the Jesus Tradition

6 On the Historicity of the Gospels

7 The Unity of the Gospel

8 The Universalizing of the Law in Galatians

9 Metaphorical Christology in Paul

10 Luke as Historiographer

11 Salvation for the Gentiles and Israel

Part III: On the Way to the New Testament

12 Jesus and the Canon

13 The Acts of the Apostles and the Emergence of the New Testament Canon

14 ‘The Church Has Four Gospels, the Heresy Many’

Part IV: What Is ‘Theology of the New Testament’?

15 Particularity and Inclusivity in Early Christianity

16 The Meaning of the Canon for a Theology of the New Testament

Bibliography

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Modern Authors

Subject Index

Jens Schröter is Professor for Exegesis and Theology of the New Testament and New Testament Apocrypha at the Faculty of Theology at the Humboldt-University in Berlin.
Wayne Coppins is Professor of Religion at The University of Georgia.
Simon Gathercole is Reader in New Testament Studies at the University of Cambridge.